Custom Post Types and Taxonomies: A Content Modelling Guide
A practitioner’s guide to custom post types, WordPress taxonomies and post meta: decision rules, registration code, relationship patterns and migration steps.
14 min read
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Guides, tutorials and opinions on WordPress from the team behind Canvas.
WooCommerce Speed: Why Product Pages Crawl and How to Fix Them
Fix WooCommerce speed properly: measure TTFB vs LCP, clear autoload and Action Scheduler bloat, kill cart fragments and cache product pages without breaking
13 min read
Staging, Version Control and Deploys for WordPress Teams
A practitioner’s guide to WordPress staging, Git workflow and atomic deployment: whitelist .gitignore, Composer plugins, migration runners and safe rollbacks.
15 min read
WP-CLI for People Who Avoid the Terminal
A practical wp-cli guide for developers who avoid the terminal: the 12 commands that matter, search-replace gotchas with Elementor JSON, aliases and real
11 min read
WordPress Cron Is Not Cron: Fixing Scheduled Tasks
Why wp cron misses scheduled tasks, how to disable wp cron safely, and the WP-CLI crontab setup, retry handling and monitoring we use on client sites.
12 min read
WordPress Page Builders in 2026: Elementor, Bricks, Gutenberg and the Real Trade-offs
Elementor vs Bricks vs Gutenberg in 2026: real DOM sizes, lock-in costs and how we pick a WordPress page builder on client projects after shipping hundreds.
11 min read
How to Build a Custom Gutenberg Block Without Losing Your Mind
Build a custom Gutenberg block that survives updates: block.json, dynamic rendering, deprecations, inner blocks and the Interactivity API, explained properly.
12 min read
Database Bloat in WordPress: Revisions, Transients and Autoloaded Options
A practitioner’s guide to WordPress database optimization: audit autoloaded options, fix transient bloat, cap revisions and clean orphaned postmeta safely.
12 min read
Choosing WordPress Hosting: Shared, VPS, Managed and What Matters
A practical guide to choosing WordPress hosting in 2026: shared vs VPS vs managed, PHP worker limits, real benchmarks and the numbers hosts never publish.
11 min read
WordPress Accessibility: Fixing the Five Failures Auditors Always Find
The five WordPress accessibility failures auditors find on almost every site, with the WCAG 2.2 AA fixes: contrast tokens, focus rings, names, headings, live
12 min read
Internal Linking in WordPress: A System, Not a Plugin
Internal linking SEO in WordPress done properly: click depth targets, a WP-CLI orphan audit script, shared-tag related posts in SQL, and a workflow that
14 min read
WordPress Caching Explained: Page, Object, Browser and CDN
WordPress caching explained properly: page cache, object cache, browser headers and CDN edge rules, with real Nginx, Redis and purge config from production
14 min read
